What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

dunelm said:

Fruit defence barriers against the Brock’s - that will be a challenge. Thank you for the wonderful snowy owl.

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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone from a damp and overcast start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this am and the forecast is for rain to stop at about 10am. Trick or treat went swimmingly. There was a route round some fancy house decorations and treats planted in six of the community cupboards around the town. Today’s plan is to break up the pumpkin heads and scatter them in the woods. A niece of ours has recently opened a new and pre-loved childrens clothes shop , Here, if you are interested so we called in yesterday and the grandchildren chose a few items. Art bit, trees and birds - how unusual is that! Hope pinch punch rabbits day brings you good fortune. Koffy time.



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ianpspurs said:

Good morning everyone on a damp start to November here in L.A. All Saints day today and as a subtle difference tomorrow is All Souls day. It will be good to remember those who are no longer with us such as Goonergal, Typetoo and Oldvatr to name three - maybe people can add those I don't know. Two days of journeying into Cambs have reinforced my judgement that life there is, was and ever shall be better than here for me. Monday we went to The Graves then shopping. Besides being so much prettier St Ives has Morrisons, Aldi and Waitrose in close proximity as well as a thriving market twice weekly and monthly farmers market. Plus grass actually grows and one can see the rearing of and buy buffalo, ostrich and crocodile from the producers.Yesterday I was excused school pickup here so went with JKP to pickup granduaghter from school and collect The Little Guy ©. He refuses to hold JKPs hand but walks obediently within holding distance but he grabbed mine. His "big" sister was keen on cuddles whilst watching Fantastic Mr Fox. Simple things but huge blessings in my context. In and of themselves they have no power to do anything for my cancer but as gifts from God, my but, they have some weight. Anyhow, @gennepher thanks for that splendid owl - not called Errol is it? @dunelm thanks for sharing today's and yesterday's art. I hope your Niece's venture goes well. They seem to be very popular. Y'all have a good day and hopefully find your own moments of joy and wonder. Ely Cathedral from side on on a bright autumn day is majestic.

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lindisfel said:

I must have expended 5 more spoons than I had, so this am I was knackered and was out of breath when I walked to the chemist at the surgery.
They sent me a text Monday saying my tablets were ready.. which was not true. They didn't even have the five eplerenone I was short of last time plus another 56 they didn't have the others were not made up. Whats happened to this Country of ours?
D.

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lindisfel said:

If I remember correctly one can set up the time to any time relative to GMT plus or minus and that is a 10 year old Octavia but with all the bells and whistles.
I wont let it do my parking for me.

One can't do anything on these modern cars without plugging in a computer!

Oh for the days of grease nipples, gapping plugs and setting up the points.
D.

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lindisfel said:

I must have expended 5 more spoons than I had, so this am I was knackered and was out of breath when I walked to the chemist at the surgery.
They sent me a text Monday saying my tablets were ready.. which was not true. They didn't even have the five eplerenone I was short of last time plus another 56 they didn't have the others were not made up. Whats happened to this Country of ours?
D.

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gennepher said:

I had the same type of text on Monday @lindisfel from the chemist saying the owings had come in. So I went to collect with my owing slip, oh we haven't got that they said, but we have...and she proceeded to rummage through the cupboards for the next 10 minutes. Triumphantly she hands me a Ventolin which looked suspiciously like it was owing from a couple of prescriptions ago. What about these two things, daytime eyedrops and dry mouth stuff on my owing slip from last week I said. I don't know anything about those she said and mysteriously disappears.

I hadn't wanted to go out this morning because of my cold but when I got back from this useless trip, I went on the couch and fell asleep, until now, 2:30 pm. Any spoons I had when I got up this morning mysteriously vanished along with the chemist assistant. And whatever spoon I have conjured up in my sleep, is now going to be used searching Amazon for the daytime eyedrops (the most important thing), which will arrive at my doorstep tomorrow. The dry mouth stuff I get is not available on Amazon...

I feel for you Derek. This is soul destroying, using up/sucking up our valuable energy to survive in our old age.

My prescription was not ready last week either, even though the text said it was ready for collection, and I had to sit on the narrow seat on my walker for nearly half hour while it was done (and then there were still owings). So frustrating, and I went back to bed that day too.

We need everything to work properly, and be organised properly.

I saw an elderly man this morning in the post office upset, because the post office lady said this was the last year the dvla would let you pay car tax at the post office. What do I do next year he asked? Pay online he was told. But he didn't have a computer or internet. He was older than me.

EDIT I have just signed the petition for the above. More signatures would help.

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Dear friends,

I just signed the petition "Prevent Government removing DVLA services from the Post Office from April 2024" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.

This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petiti...32&source=&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=
"

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gennepher said:

I had the same type of text on Monday @lindisfel from the chemist saying the owings had come in. So I went to collect with my owing slip, oh we haven't got that they said, but we have...and she proceeded to rummage through the cupboards for the next 10 minutes. Triumphantly she hands me a Ventolin which looked suspiciously like it was owing from a couple of prescriptions ago. What about these two things, daytime eyedrops and dry mouth stuff on my owing slip from last week I said. I don't know anything about those she said and mysteriously disappears.

I hadn't wanted to go out this morning because of my cold but when I got back from this useless trip, I went on the couch and fell asleep, until now, 2:30 pm. Any spoons I had when I got up this morning mysteriously vanished along with the chemist assistant. And whatever spoon I have conjured up in my sleep, is now going to be used searching Amazon for the daytime eyedrops (the most important thing), which will arrive at my doorstep tomorrow. The dry mouth stuff I get is not available on Amazon...

I feel for you Derek. This is soul destroying, using up/sucking up our valuable energy to survive in our old age.

My prescription was not ready last week either, even though the text said it was ready for collection, and I had to sit on the narrow seat on my walker for nearly half hour while it was done (and then there were still owings). So frustrating, and I went back to bed that day too.

We need everything to work properly, and be organised properly.

I saw an elderly man this morning in the post office upset, because the post office lady said this was the last year the dvla would let you pay car tax at the post office. What do I do next year he asked? Pay online he was told. But he didn't have a computer or internet. He was older than me.

EDIT I have just signed the petition for the above. More signatures would help.

"
Dear friends,

I just signed the petition "Prevent Government removing DVLA services from the Post Office from April 2024" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.

This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petiti...32&source=&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=
"

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Lamont D said:

Done and the ticket offices are staying! Yay!

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Annb said:

Done. The website is not the easiest to follow (designed by someone with all their faculties about them) but I got there.

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gennepher said:

I had the same type of text on Monday @lindisfel from the chemist saying the owings had come in. So I went to collect with my owing slip, oh we haven't got that they said, but we have...and she proceeded to rummage through the cupboards for the next 10 minutes. Triumphantly she hands me a Ventolin which looked suspiciously like it was owing from a couple of prescriptions ago. What about these two things, daytime eyedrops and dry mouth stuff on my owing slip from last week I said. I don't know anything about those she said and mysteriously disappears.

I hadn't wanted to go out this morning because of my cold but when I got back from this useless trip, I went on the couch and fell asleep, until now, 2:30 pm. Any spoons I had when I got up this morning mysteriously vanished along with the chemist assistant. And whatever spoon I have conjured up in my sleep, is now going to be used searching Amazon for the daytime eyedrops (the most important thing), which will arrive at my doorstep tomorrow. The dry mouth stuff I get is not available on Amazon...

I feel for you Derek. This is soul destroying, using up/sucking up our valuable energy to survive in our old age.

My prescription was not ready last week either, even though the text said it was ready for collection, and I had to sit on the narrow seat on my walker for nearly half hour while it was done (and then there were still owings). So frustrating, and I went back to bed that day too.

We need everything to work properly, and be organised properly.

I saw an elderly man this morning in the post office upset, because the post office lady said this was the last year the dvla would let you pay car tax at the post office. What do I do next year he asked? Pay online he was told. But he didn't have a computer or internet. He was older than me.

EDIT I have just signed the petition for the above. More signatures would help.

"
Dear friends,

I just signed the petition "Prevent Government removing DVLA services from the Post Office from April 2024" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.

This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petiti...32&source=&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=
"

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ianpspurs said:

Good morning everyone on a damp start to November here in L.A. All Saints day today and as a subtle difference tomorrow is All Souls day. It will be good to remember those who are no longer with us such as Goonergal, Typetoo and Oldvatr to name three - maybe people can add those I don't know. Two days of journeying into Cambs have reinforced my judgement that life there is, was and ever shall be better than here for me. Monday we went to The Graves then shopping. Besides being so much prettier St Ives has Morrisons, Aldi and Waitrose in close proximity as well as a thriving market twice weekly and monthly farmers market. Plus grass actually grows and one can see the rearing of and buy buffalo, ostrich and crocodile from the producers.Yesterday I was excused school pickup here so went with JKP to pickup granduaghter from school and collect The Little Guy ©. He refuses to hold JKP's hand (but walks obediently within holding distance) but he grabbed mine. His "big" sister was keen on cuddles whilst watching Fantastic Mr Fox. Simple things but huge blessings in my context. In and of themselves they have no power to do anything for my cancer but as gifts from God, my but they have some weight. Anyhow, @gennepher thanks for that splendid owl - not called Errol is it? @dunelm thanks for sharing today's and yesterday's art. I hope your Niece's venture goes well. They seem to be very popular. Y'all have a good day and hopefully find your own moments of joy and wonder. Ely Cathedral from side on on a bright autumn day is majestic.

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gennepher said:

I am liking this series of Art bits @dunelm
Sounds a good trick or treat...

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gennepher said:

I had the same type of text on Monday @lindisfel from the chemist saying the owings had come in. So I went to collect with my owing slip, oh we haven't got that they said, but we have...and she proceeded to rummage through the cupboards for the next 10 minutes. Triumphantly she hands me a Ventolin which looked suspiciously like it was owing from a couple of prescriptions ago. What about these two things, daytime eyedrops and dry mouth stuff on my owing slip from last week I said. I don't know anything about those she said and mysteriously disappears.

I hadn't wanted to go out this morning because of my cold but when I got back from this useless trip, I went on the couch and fell asleep, until now, 2:30 pm. Any spoons I had when I got up this morning mysteriously vanished along with the chemist assistant. And whatever spoon I have conjured up in my sleep, is now going to be used searching Amazon for the daytime eyedrops (the most important thing), which will arrive at my doorstep tomorrow. The dry mouth stuff I get is not available on Amazon...

I feel for you Derek. This is soul destroying, using up/sucking up our valuable energy to survive in our old age.

My prescription was not ready last week either, even though the text said it was ready for collection, and I had to sit on the narrow seat on my walker for nearly half hour while it was done (and then there were still owings). So frustrating, and I went back to bed that day too.

We need everything to work properly, and be organised properly.

I saw an elderly man this morning in the post office upset, because the post office lady said this was the last year the dvla would let you pay car tax at the post office. What do I do next year he asked? Pay online he was told. But he didn't have a computer or internet. He was older than me.

EDIT I have just signed the petition for the above. More signatures would help.

"
Dear friends,

I just signed the petition "Prevent Government removing DVLA services from the Post Office from April 2024" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.

This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petiti...32&source=&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=
"

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ianpspurs said:

Petition sign up done. Actually I'm not sure anyone within at least a 5 - 10 mile radius of where I sit could actually find an open post office anyhow.

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